Temperature recording

Details: An easy, accurate way of recording temperatures over time.
I use these USB data loggers, small battery operated devices that can be programmed to record temperature, humidity and dew point at regular intervals.
Just download the data to the computer periodically and import into my home built weather reporting software for charting and analysis.
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Website: http://www.microdaq.com/lascar/el-usb-2.php

Weather Report

Details: This is a data analysis and visualisation program developed for linux. It assists in the storage, retrieval, analysis and comparison of numeric datasets or indicators.
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Date: 2010-07-12T00:00:00.000+12:00

Rain (176mm in 6 days)

Details: The weather men predicted this one and issued dire warnings. We are well placed (elevated) to deal with torrential rainfall... just a bugger about the leak in the roof, I thought I'd fixed it.

Other wet weather news
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Date: 2010-05-26T00:00:00.000+12:00

A wild storm

Details: Today it was calm and mild and not very cold at all. But then around midday, I heard a strange rumbling sound that didn't quite sound like traffic on the road. It was a bit deeper and had more of a rumble to it....almost like thunder.
Date: 2010-03-12T00:00:00.000+13:00

Nor-west clouds at evening

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Details: A changeable day as the southerly front moves in.
Date: 2009-10-28T00:00:00.000+13:00

Snow in October

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Details: After a week of damp and cloudy, the weather reached a wintry climax with flurries of snow and a good dumping up on the hills. The ground was wet and boggy for a few days and the streams gushed noisily.

Date: 2009-10-09T00:00:00.000+13:00

Cloudy with chance of....dust?

Image: http://static.stuff.co.nz/1253684498/692/2895692.jpg
Details: Yesterday it looked cloudy and misty like it might rain. It was a bit mysterious though, because when I went outside the air felt dry, and I realised that the murky haze wasn't misty but more like smoke or dust.
Well, turns out that it was dust, covering all of North Canterbury. It 'baffled experts' yesterday and they couldn't figure out what it was. But Olmec said it smelled like dust, and he was right. It was dust that had blown over from a dry lake bed in Australia. It rained red drops of the stuff in Tasmania before the remaining dust made it to New Zealand. Strange...

Date: 2009-09-15T00:00:00.000+12:00